Citation Information for “Plato, ‘Myth of Gyges.’”

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“The mental experiment applies the paradigmatic myth of Gyges
and his right to human conduct at large.… What would a man
do if social sanctions were removed
and there were no problems of spiritual and moral order? The hypothesis
formulates a real problem because there are, indeed, phases
in history, the periods of crisis, where internal and external
controls break down to such an extent that an appreciable number
of persons in a society can live, in various degrees of realization,
as it were in the dream of their desires.“ Eric Voegelin et al., Order
and History: Plato and Aristotle (Columbia Missouri: University of Missouri Press,
1999), 130-1.